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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Blood Water
« on: September 26, 2008, 03:59:38 am »Must be the fish then. Nice to know its not a sign of bad things to come though
And a bloody river full of dwarf-eating fish isn't a bad sign?
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And a bloody river full of dwarf-eating fish isn't a bad sign?
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Just Caught A Giant Cave Spider
« on: September 26, 2008, 03:58:20 am »Ummm can they shoot through Fortifications?
Have a 6 x 3 room one empty row with the spider cage, one row of fortications then a row of floodgates then a couple of empty strips and a leased animal.
Gives webbing a chance to spread out more so you get more of it, you can drop the floodgates to stop the interupting and you never have to worry about them breaking out.
Anyone know if that would work? Never captured GCS myself but makes sense in my head!
Don't think so - from what I hear, the GCS needs to be able to path to the target befor it will target it for a webbing, so while they'd probably shoot through fortifications, they'd have to have a walkable path to the target befor they actually would.
Still, might be worth seeing if the GCS will linger and lob webs through fortifications rather than run off in the other direction, down the twisting hundred-plus tile(complete with recapture cage trap) path to the chained critter.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Artifact Bins
« on: September 26, 2008, 03:26:10 am »
So, yeah, my most recent fort's first two artifacts were turtle bone bins, the first such things I've ever seen. So I'm thinking that's pretty cool; maybe I can use them to store my future artifacts, even, tho I generally rather binless artifact storage, with each in a little alcove in my treasure vault.
Except I can't get them into my artifact stockpile, because my crafts stockpile claimed them, they're filled with trade goods that can't be traded because the artifacts they're in can't be taken to the trade depot, and there's nothing I can really do, because I can't set them to be dumped where I want, as they're artifacts.
About all I can think of doing, short of dump-emptying and forbidding them in-situ, is maybe removing all my bin-type stockpiles except the artifact one, dumping the ArtiBins contents, forbidding all other bins, and hoping they end up in the right place while hauling jobs pile up, at the very least.
Ug - this seems simple enough, but micromanaging bins has never gone well for me.
But atleast this time I'm not trying to get the artifacts out of the bin.
Except I can't get them into my artifact stockpile, because my crafts stockpile claimed them, they're filled with trade goods that can't be traded because the artifacts they're in can't be taken to the trade depot, and there's nothing I can really do, because I can't set them to be dumped where I want, as they're artifacts.
About all I can think of doing, short of dump-emptying and forbidding them in-situ, is maybe removing all my bin-type stockpiles except the artifact one, dumping the ArtiBins contents, forbidding all other bins, and hoping they end up in the right place while hauling jobs pile up, at the very least.
Ug - this seems simple enough, but micromanaging bins has never gone well for me.
But atleast this time I'm not trying to get the artifacts out of the bin.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: ultimate fortress
« on: September 26, 2008, 02:33:14 am »
Notepad + Character Map?
Anyway, the perfect fortress is so utterly subjective as to be meaningless beyond a given player - such is the nature of perfection.
Anyway, the perfect fortress is so utterly subjective as to be meaningless beyond a given player - such is the nature of perfection.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Mandates adamantium items???
« on: September 26, 2008, 01:53:40 am »Yeah, I mean if I was a noble who liked diamond encrusted statues of dragons made from platinum and there was neither diamonds not platinum on my map I still wouldn't want to hear excuses.
Hehe...
I want that statue, not excuses!
Yes sir!
Just let me pull this lever for your new Statue Delivery System over in the next room; very grand and elaborate, as befits a Dwarf of your importance and stature. And don't worry - I'm locking your door on the way out so no one will disturb you as you admire your new statue.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: First trial run of Fuck the World Device and water pressure
« on: September 26, 2008, 12:58:47 am »Then I checked out my meeting hall with the well in it. Holy shit! The newly dammed brook had begun to replace its pressure into the well, which was overflowing and filling my meeting hall, and spreading beyond it through the fort.
This is why I make excessive use of doors.
Afterall, you never can tell with Dwarves.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: An Economy Based Off Murder: Selling Immigrant Clothes
« on: September 26, 2008, 12:23:48 am »Hmm, this topic is making me want to start a bandit fortress: a small band of, er, bandits, setting up their lair deep in the wilderness and kidnapping innocent travellers who happen by. They would throw the newcomers in the arena with some beast; those who survived would get to join the gang, the others, well, we need some way to buy food.
I've been tempted to try that myself, now that roads are in - find a river crossing and set up a little "toll fort" around the bridge, could even use drawbridges/etc. to force the caravan to enter on one side and leave on the other, following the road, by only providing one viable path to follow.
Of course, if you want to be nice, it's a good setup for a dwarfy inn and trading post.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What is the player in DF?
« on: September 25, 2008, 11:41:05 pm »
Just look at the game's title - we are, each of us, the faces of Armok, and the Dwarves our willing slaves.
The Dwarves do what we tell them because we are that greatest, wisest of beings, if a little fickle and unpredictable(but then, what is a God if not beyond mortal understanding?), bringing not just great risk, but also the promise of phenominal reward.
And as with all religons, you have those even amoungst the most faithful who grow, at times, disinterested, missinterpretritive, or whom in their ignorance start to resent their master, maybe even think they know better, who start disobeying, or even issuing mandates to their fellows, be damned the Master's plans, maybe even claiming their own selfish wants to be His Will - afterall, Armok has almost no direct influence in the world, doesn't he?
Ignorant fools.
Ignorant, burning fools. MuhahaHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
(How can the DF forums not have an Evil smilie?!)
The Dwarves do what we tell them because we are that greatest, wisest of beings, if a little fickle and unpredictable(but then, what is a God if not beyond mortal understanding?), bringing not just great risk, but also the promise of phenominal reward.
And as with all religons, you have those even amoungst the most faithful who grow, at times, disinterested, missinterpretritive, or whom in their ignorance start to resent their master, maybe even think they know better, who start disobeying, or even issuing mandates to their fellows, be damned the Master's plans, maybe even claiming their own selfish wants to be His Will - afterall, Armok has almost no direct influence in the world, doesn't he?
Ignorant fools.
Ignorant, burning fools. MuhahaHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
(How can the DF forums not have an Evil smilie?!)
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: I made a $2,500,000 well.
« on: September 20, 2008, 05:03:50 am »WTF?!
No one told me?!
Be educating yerself, yarrr!
aye, tiss a short lived and easily overlooked holiday, but one of the coolest ones ever.
Tis too short, aye, tho nae more than most, t'holiday lastin', as ye may be assumin', a day.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: I made a $2,500,000 well.
« on: September 19, 2008, 09:09:03 pm »[Off Topic] Pirate-speak always brightens up my day.
T'day be a 'appy day fer ye, t'would seem, bein' as it be September 19th: International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Yarrr!!
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: I made a $2,500,000 well.
« on: September 19, 2008, 06:20:29 pm »Just got an awesome idea, encrusting Dragons.
(I'm not kidding)
SMAUG!!!
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Modding question
« on: September 19, 2008, 05:55:42 pm »Are there tags that I can add to goblins and kobolds to make them butcherable and tannable?
Aye, iirc. Dwarves, too, even. Tho I'm nae modder so I dun be knowin what they be, alas.
Tho I do be recallin' some ol' misshaps others 'ave regailed us with, o' creating zero-degree critter skin that 'appens to be 'avin' a likewise boinin' point, an' th' super-cold 'steam' that be flash-freezin' his butcher.
Ye may have better luck askin' in t' actual mod forum, 'owever.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Magma pipe limit?
« on: September 19, 2008, 05:47:46 pm »Lava will flow until its entire surface is even. If you break the surface with obstructions (e.g. by making an enclosed tunnel) then you'll get two separate surfaces, each flat. So as long as your hole is connected to the volcano without any ceilings, it'll eventually have the same altitude as the caldera.
Be recalling, tho, that magma be "chunky" and nae flow up save fer in yer magma pipes.
Nae be lookin' like 'at matters 'ere, but tis best ta be clarifyin' fer future reference.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: how tall should a watch tower be?
« on: September 19, 2008, 05:43:51 pm »
I be buildin' towers fer the character an' astetics o' 'em, even back 'afore Cap'n Toady be fixin' cross-Z-level shootin' fer crossbows, way back when.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Kobold ambush nearly wipes out frontier settlers, news at eleven.
« on: September 19, 2008, 05:23:44 pm »Shortest lived fortress ever.
I be contestin that! Af'er experiancin' m'self th' classic Embark-Atop-Gobbo-Tower(with Bonus Demon) in me first attempt t'lay siege t' them thar demon-lubbers.
Thar be burnin' dwarfy bits everywhere, yarrr....
